The Law and the Resurrected Life Romans 7

The Law and the Resurrected Life 律法和復活的生命 Romans 7

Big Idea: 见解 • The law reveals our • 律法揭示了我们 sin and desperate 的罪恶、对救赎 need for redemption and continual need 的迫切需求、以 to rely upon the 及为了我们的拯 grace of Christ alone 救和信仰的成长 for both our salvation and growth 对基督恩典的持 in the faith. 续依靠。

1. The Law of God Reveals our Sin Romans 7: 4– 5, 7 -8 • [4] Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. • [5] For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.

1. The Law of God Reveals our Sin Romans 7: 4– 5, 7 -8 • [7] What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet. ” • [8] But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead. (ESV)

New City Catechism, Q. 15 “Since no one can keep the law, what is its purpose? ” • Answer: “That we may know the holy nature and will of God, and the sinful nature and disobedience of our heart; and thus our need of a Savior. The law also teaches and exhorts us to live a life worth of our Savior”

2. We cannot fully obey everything God commands us Romans 7: 15– 20 • [15] For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. • [16] Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. • [17] So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.

2. We cannot fully obey everything God commands us Romans 7: 15– 20 • [18] For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. • [19] For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. • [20] Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. (ESV)

3. Jesus is our only hope of deliverance Romans 7: 21– 25 • [21] So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. • [22] For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, • [23] but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.

3. Jesus is our only hope of deliverance Romans 7: 21– 25 • [24] Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? • [25] Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin. (ESV)